How did you learn to program?

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I can hack around in several languages but I would be in trouble if I needed to write something totally by myself. How did you learn to program, whether it be in PHP, C++, etc. If you were a casual hacker and made the move to hardcore programmer, how did you do so?
 


Books, man. Piles and piles of them, with some practical experience mixed in.
 
Commodore 64 Assembly (6502) was my beginning.
Everything nowadays has been through looking at others code, online tutorials and books.
If it's a language I'm not familiar with, I can usually hack my way through by copy & pasting bits and pieces from tutorials to build what I want. PHP I can easily write my own stuff.
I wish I had access to all the online tutorials available now back when I started out.
I mostly just use php for all my web stuff, and don't get much time to do much else (the fun stuff).
Code: 
* = $1000;
lda #$00;
sta $d020;
here:
inc $d021;
jmp here;
 
Online tutorials. Then just reference sheets. If i wanted to learn sql, just search for "sql tutorial"... has always served me well.
 
Started in high school in class. 4 years of computer science later, and bam :) Currently I learn from examples and giving myself projects to do.
 
I'm still a hacker at it but I am learning from noodling, breaking apart existing scripts, googling problems I encounter, Sitepoint, magazines. You name it. Mostly from googling issues though.
 
I picked bits up of different languages, then got a book on PHP, and started teachin myself after i got the basics.
 
Took a Java class in college but most of the stuff I use (html, php, etc) is just stuff I picked up. Can't say I'm any good at it tho but for easy stuff there usually are enough examples out there to help
 
I learn from tutorials and google the specific issues I have when I have them.

I do feel the holes in my knowledge, though, and am planning to get at least one PHP/MySQL book sometime soon.
 
I learn from tutorials, books and of course hacking other people's code from sourceforge (Preferably annotated stuff).

I also find good old W3 Schools to be great for learning web programing.
 
Oh man, the good old days when I bought my first computer... Sinclair ZX81 with 1Kb internal memory :eek:, programming language was Basic.
 
I learned from looking at people's code.

I could never follow tutorials, or learn in University.
 
WhatiFind said:
Oh man, the good old days when I bought my first computer... Sinclair ZX81 with 1Kb internal memory :eek:, programming language was Basic.
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I played with Basic on my Commodore a few times, but didn't have a cassete for it...

I would start making a simple textual village simulation game and had to stay up late if I was to play with it at all, because it was all gone once I turned it off :D
 
it's what i went to school for. 2 year diploma in information technology. also learned networking sctuff whilst i was there. since then, i've taken a few courses at BCIT and taught myself other things from online tutorials and such.
 
just starting to learn - got books and a dvd from lynda.com

thinking about joining lynda.com as they have loads of tutorials and i find the videos really help (hint Jon)
 
Mostly tutorials and looking at code.

I don't know how you guys read those books.. they kill my interest in the subject
 
stanley said:
looking at code.
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i find it really helps breaking down other peoples code and trying to work out how / why they work then tweek them to do what i want
 
Julez said:
i find it really helps breaking down other peoples code and trying to work out how / why they work then tweek them to do what i want
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That's how I first learned. Then I would just look for tutorials on the web.
 
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